I am of a similar mindset, if science can bring back the Woolly Mammoth the results of bringing it back might not be what everyone is expecting.
The Woolly Mammoth went extinct for a reason, other than proving it can be done, what purpose does it serve.
The reason may have been that we ate them all. I suppose that could happen again, if we have a chance.
other than proving it can be done, what purpose does it serve.
But, there can be spinoff technology in this endeaver from AI to biological and that is the undertone. Mammoths are the shiney thing.
The fact is there has been a lot of “easy” come money available to invest in high risk. Loss on this also offsets profits from other activity, always a tax angle.
Historically there have been other wild ideas that have been invested in. most fail, some succeed.
Well, they were apparently quite tasty. They were hunted to extinction for a reason.
Mammoth tenderloin is probably delicious
I say bring back the mammoth because there is a lot of habitat that could use it. Think how much people would pay to see woolly mammoths in their native habitat.
Just like the dinosaurs, an abrupt combination of accidents finished them off. We anthropomorphize nature when we ascribe purposes: "all there is is matter in motion." Unless you are a believer, in which case God may have a purpose, but that is probably unknown to us.
The Wooly Mammoth was a keystone species that maintained large stretches of arctic plain as brush and grasslands. This is believed to have had beneficial environmental and ecological effects.
Good eatin’!